bear cubs

elective adventures

Bear CUBS Elective Adventures are designed to enhance the program for our scouts entering Third Grade in the fall. We have guidance, tips, and resources to complete each elective below.

What's in the Elective?

  • Rank specific manuals

  • Project materials list and any additional printouts (high-quality and color)

  • Rank specific checklist that can be turned into the scout's den leader or used to help fill in Scoutbook


Families can expect to have fun together working on projects while completing the following adventures:

  • Forensics - time to take a bite out of crime...or figure out who took that bite!

  • Make it Move is all about motion - explosions, pullies, levers, and the cool things they control.

  • Marble Madness will teach your scout the rules of classic Ringer (and a few others) and how to make their own marble bag to hold all their marbles.

  • Robotics. Circuits and bots and articulating hands, oh my! Dive into why we need robots and how we use them.

  • Super Science. All science, all fun! Make your predictions because testing hypotheses is a lot of fun.

Projects

If you complete the Bear C.U.B.S. your scout can be expected to have:

  • Constructed an exploding chain reaction & stick bombs

  • Made a desktop flagpole

  • Used pulleys & levers to move things

  • Designed and constructed Rube Goldberg machines

  • Discovered does it Sink or Float?

  • Played marble games

  • Made a drawstring marble bag

  • Created a five-finger articulating robot hand

  • Built a bot

  • Experimented with static electricity

  • 2 Color experiments

Getting Started

The C.U.B.S. program is designed to be extremely easy to use and include anything and everything you might not have at home. Each adventure begins with a list of materials you should acquire from around your home and everything that will be included in your bag. Let's take a look at an example:

Here are a few pages from the Bears adventures.

Intro

The adventure is introduced and the supplies are listed.


Printables

Any helpful printables are included. The manual is consumable. If a printout is better in color or needs special paper it will be in the bag as well.


Other Information

Some adventure requirements do not lend themselves to being "bagged." We include relevant links to help these situations.


Need more help? Use the drop down menu or links above to see each adventure and see more detailed photographs of experiments and activities.

Completing an Adventure

Included with your manual and printouts, is a Certificate of Completion and a chart to help you track and share your scout's achievements.

You can give it to a den or pack leader. Likewise, you can enter the information directly into scout book and your pack leadership can approve it remotely.